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Downtown Wichita is located at 37°41′20″N 97°20′10″W (37.688888, −97.336111) at an elevation of 1,299 feet (396 m). [11] It mainly consists of the area between Murdock Street to the north, U.S. Route 54 (Kellogg) to the south, the Arkansas River to the west, and Washington Street to the east. Portions of Downtown overlap with the ...
Wichita (/ ˈwɪtʃɪtɔː / WITCH-ih-taw) [10] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County. [3] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. [5][6] The Wichita metro area had a population of 647,610 in 2020. [8] It is located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River.
Old Cowtown Museum is an accredited history museum located in Wichita, Kansas, United States.It is located next to the Arkansas River in central Wichita. [1] [2] The Museum was established in 1952, and is one of the oldest open-air history museums in central United States with 54 historic and re-created buildings, including a period farm and out-buildings, situated on 23 acres of land off the ...
A vision for the next decade of downtown development in Wichita’s core is coming soon. By early 2025, the City Council will be asked to sign off on an updated master plan that’s being produced ...
The Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway (AVI) was an interurban railway that operated in Kansas, United States, from 1910 to 1938 for passengers and to 1942 for freight, running between Wichita, Newton, and Hutchinson. [1] It operated a small fleet of electrically powered passenger and freight equipment. Service was suspended during World War II ...
Prehistory and exploration. The site at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas Rivers has served as a trading center and meeting place for nomadic hunting people for at least 11,000 years. [1] Human habitation in the Wichita area has been dated, in archeological digs, as far back as 3,000 B.C. [2]
28,600 cu ft/s (810 m 3 /s) Basin features. Watersheds. Little Arkansas- Arkansas -. Mississippi. The Little Arkansas River (/ ɑːrˈkænzəs / ar-KAN-zəs) is a river in the central Great Plains of North America. A tributary of the Arkansas River, its entire 123-mile (198 km) length lies within the American state of Kansas.
37°41′14″N 97°20′43″W / 37.687309°N 97.345363°W / 37.687309; -97.345363 (Ackerman Island (defunct)) Administration. United States. State. Kansas. City. Wichita. Ackerman Island was a sandbar island located in the Arkansas River in downtown Wichita, Kansas, United States. It was located on the north side of the ...